community cheesecake

cottage cheese + sour cream cheesecake with raspberries

Last night was our first real community outing in our new/old small town with a casual barbeque in the park with the local CFA brigade Mr M has signed up with. I obviously grew up here and know a lot of the families in the district, Mr M is getting super confused as to who is related to who etc. But I need some serious memory jogging too! Some people I haven't seen or spoken to since well before I was a teenager, I get a lot of "Oooooh you're Michael's youngest!!" and people genuinely look shocked that I'm not over playing on the swings with the other kids and still four foot tall. I grew up, funny that. 

Mr M and I had to giggle at the invitation to the barbeque which arrived in our (makeshift used chemical drum) mailbox: 'BBQ at Pioneer Park, BYO salad or dessert and alcohol (if required)'. Did we need alcoholic lubrication? Is that what it was inferring? Hahaha. I decided to go for a sour cream and cottage cheese cheesecake with raspberries, after joking with a local lady about how many potato salads would be amongst all the potato farmers. Throw it on our cake platter we got for our engagement off another local lady who would be there (yes I did that especially, I'm a suck) and I think I was a hit, well with the sweet tooth husbands at the very least.